We may be in the midst of a global pandemic, but time is not standing still. Summer watch sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s are booming. A Breguet pocket watch that once belonged to England’s King ...

The Ref. 7637 is also a minute repeater, a high complication that Breguet also had a hand in developing. Abraham-Louis started making repeating watches in 1783, devising something called a spring ...

One of watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet’s most famous pocket watches just sold for a record-breaking price at a Christie’s sale in Geneva, Switzerland. Part of Breguet’s rare self-winding perpétuelle ...

Unconventionality sets the tone for Breguet’s Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon 7087. “We wanted to choose the sound and then develop the watch around the sound, and not the other way around,” says ...

It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Swiss-French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet has had upon horology. Inventor of the tourbillon, proponent of the souscription (“subscription”) model of ...

WHEN SHE WAS A PRISONER IN THE TOUR DU TEMPLE, with her husband Louis XVI, king of France from 1774 to 1792, Marie Antoinette expressed the desire to have an object that marked the hours passing. She ...

In 1783, one of Marie Antoinette’s guards and secret admirers devised a way to make her fall in love with him. He had no doubt noticed the queen’s obsession with Abraham-Louis Breguet’s watches, of ...

Sotheby’s is set to offload the most extensive collection of Breguet timepieces in more than 30 years when its flagship ‘Luxury Sales’ live auction kicks off in November. Held in ...

Breguet, the illustrious Swiss watchmaker, can cast a spell over you. I know this is so. Back in 1999, a friend of mine from the online watch community read an in-flight magazine article on ...